Bill Oddie

William Edgar (Bill) Oddie OBE (born Rochdale, Lancashire, 7 July 1941) is a British comedian, actor, writer and television personality.

Oddie read English Literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge where he gained an MA. He is most famous for his birdwatching and conservation work. In the 1970s, he was a member of the BBC One television comedy series, The Goodies. Doctors found that his mother, Lilian, had schizophrenia. Oddie says that he does not remember her living at home because she spent a lot of her life in mental hospitals.

Other websites

• http://billoddie.com/
• Bill Oddie at the Internet Movie Database